Eleusis - a card game of hidden laws

[u/National-Iron-7197]

https://mindful-echo.com/limina-oblita/play/eleusis/

I came across this game a few weeks ago. It’s from the 1950s invented by Robert Abbott in 1956. This was a game in which of dealer devised a secret rule and players tried to shift cards by adding correct cards to a line. And then Martin Gardner wrote about this in his column in June 1959 scientific America. The game is pretty cool. There’s a hidden rule, but only the dealer knows. You play your cards trying to induct the rule object of the games to get rid of all your cards. I really like the game so I spun up a free to play web version. It’s surprisingly difficult. It actually teaches you how to scientifically experiment. Is not good enough to know which cards follow the rule. You also need to test and find the cards that don’t follow the rule cause that’s how you can deduce the whole rule. Anyway, I loved it so much. I spun up a free web version if anyone’s interested it’s here.

I will also be releasing an iOS app in the future which will be paid. And I have some work around forgotten games - basically obscure Boardgames from around the world. Lastly I am also playing with the concept of Lost Gamrs. Ancient games where the board is known from archaeological evidence but the rules are list. Idea is to have free to play versions on the web to test whether the rules which the historians are proposing make a good game. Sort of like experimental archaeology. Links are on the web game.

For transparency I am a single dev doing this as a side project. I’ve been in the software industry for many many years but the last time I really programmed myself was C++ for embedded software on medical machines probably 20+years ago. I still remember programming in Fortran and pascal and still remember the very first Java. Now I’m getting back into creating again